Some Employers Raise Hiring Bar
Amid Labor Shortage, Weak Field

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hotelier Harris Rosen needs workers -- 40 or 50 of them, in fact, for his six hotels in this resort area.

But unlike many in this community of 3% unemployment, he is refusing to budge from hiring standards. In fact, if anything, he's raising them. "I have to be more selective than ever," he says. So, he recently left open a critical chief engineer's job at one of his hotels for five months, forcing some workers to postpone vacations and put in longer hours. Finally, his hire was recruited in New...